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to “The Roundup for August 9-10th, 2014”

I probably missed it, but how much is all this “humanitarian bombing” costing? Since everybody is on vacation funding can’t be discussed. What social programs are going to be cut to finance this. And why aren’t the Gaza casualties considered genocide if the media is going to refer to the situation of the Yazidis as genocide.

Meanwhile, I read in an earlier post that Hagle and Pritzker are in India working on TPP. There goes the rest of our manufacturing jobs and much needed revenue. Really would be nice to have a president and congress that gave 2 shits about Americans.

Pope Francis: The violence in Iraq by Islamic State forces against religious minorities is appalling and must stop

Maybe the Pope should be more specific addressing these comments to those that fund and enable this debauchery? I wonder who that might be?

I wonder also, what truths will be revealed to a gullible public 60 years from now currently hidden under the guise of state’s secrets and national security to protect a specific strategic interest?

Baptist Minister named John Leland understood the concept of religious discrimination and the imposition of doctrine using either law or a sword to achieve a political goal when religion and politic are one. Our policy makers are ignorant and have imposed a failed system upon a foundation which does not exist in the old world. A “wall” between church and state which can never exist because of the power of religious doctrine, absolutist in nature.

John Leland wrote:

“…whenever men fly to the law or sword to protect their system of religion, and focus it upon others, it is evident that they have something in their system that will not bear the light, and stand upon the basis of truth.”

“Inquisitions?” “Scarlet Letters?” “Witch Hunts?”

Looks like some have forgotten religious absolutism here in America, the damage inflicted or the damage inflicted having not a thing to do with religion at all….

Sen. Church was from Idaho. No small potatoes, to Idahoans. But the Church Committee was an invaluable source for exposing, and attempting to correct, the CIA’s nasty behavior in the world over the 2 decades since its’ birth after WWII. Too, too bad we didn’t shrink it down to where we could drown it, and Grover Norquist, in the same bath tub. Now the CIA appears to be the knitting needles that stitch together a false narrative fabric of ” terrorism everywhere ” and some of the worst, ” smart gov’t ” people in the Western Hemisphere. Sen. Church was lucky enough not to live to see false patriots from the Corporate State, wrap themselves in that coarse, stinky fabric and declare to the world ” you are either with us or against us. ” Killing off, spying on and imprisoning your own citizens, out of the 1%s’ paranoid fear, isn’t such a great domestic policy, either. Sen. Church Would have wondered, ” but we passed a law so that the CIA couldn’t involve itself in domestic policy. What’s wrong with this picture? “

Sen. Church was lucky enough not to live to see false patriots from the Corporate State, wrap themselves in that coarse, stinky fabric and declare to the world ” you are either with us or against us. ” Killing off, spying on and imprisoning your own citizens, out of the 1%s’ paranoid fear, isn’t such a great domestic policy, either. Sen. Church Would have wondered, ” but we passed a law so that the CIA couldn’t involve itself in domestic policy. What’s wrong with this picture? “

It looks like the Shah’s Savak set up by the CIA to stifle dissent by any means, to keep Shah in power. This is what is “bleeping wrong” with this picture!